Hiking To Romero Pools in the Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
Hiking provides opportunities to be present in the moment
becoming emotionally attached to nature.
— kenne
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A Springtime That Was Not In Desert Leave a comment
Sutherland Trail (March 27, 2015)– Image by kenne
Springtime in the desert —
What’s not to love
when the flowers
are blooming!
The continuing drought
in the southwest
has devastated
this spring’s growth.
— kenne
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Hiking To Romera Pools — Revisited Leave a comment
Jeff and Phil lead others to the base of the ridge — Images by kenne
The trail begins merciful,
level and wide for
our first steps.
The sun greeting us
rising above the mountains
warming the morning air.
Our path is straight
into the canyon
through winter’s brown.
Soon the trail narrows
turning left, then right
with carved rock stairs.
The pace slows as
fellow hikers snake-line
up the steep slopes.
As we near the first ridge,
the sky seems smaller,
staying alert with each step.
Hiking the lower canyon walls,
soon we reach the first saddle,
we break for the vistas.
Seeing no bighorn sheep,
only white rocks mistook
for their white rumps.
Climbing up and
around the next ridge,
water flowing from its top.
A steep drop in the trail
beckons thoughts of yet
another ridge to climb.
Reaching a thousand feet
above the trailhead before
hiking down to the pools.
Winter rains have provided
plenty of water for breathtaking
views of the pools and falls.
Spring break will bring
students’ cliff jumping into
the deeper Romero Pools.
I share a silent moment
above the pools with
only my shadow companion.
— kenne
Images by kenne
CLICK HERE TO SEE ALL PHOTOS OF HIKING ROMERO POOLS TRAIL, JANUARY 2015.
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Sutherland Trail — Image by kenne
Hiking in March We start off cold soon hikers remove layers. Looking down on the trail High behind saguaro cactus some hikers now out of sight. Meadow below has patches Of green but few wildflowers, some poppies begin to open. Nobody bothers you on the trail Where the mountains sweep down on Catalina. -- kenne
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Hiking The Southerland Trail in Catalina State Park — Photo Essay Leave a comment
Hikers On Southerland Trail, March 2, 2018
Lead Guide, Jo Eaton
Lead Guide, Jo Eaton
California Poppy
California PoppyC
California Poppy Beginning to Open
Blue Dick Wildflower
Communities North of Catalina State Park
Crested Saguaro
Southerland Trail
Hiking The Southerland Trail in Catalina State Park (Click on any of the tiled images for a larger view in a slideshow format.) — Images by kenne
This trail is usually an excellent wildflower trail, not this year. The primary reason is very little rain this winter. Some recent rains will help for propagating next year’s wildflowers — no “Fields of Poppies” this year.
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Catalina State Park Panorama 1 comment
Catalina State Park is located at the western edge of the Santa Catalina Mountains — Panorama by kenne
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Catalina State Park Panorama by kenne
I do not know if the desert can be loved,
but it is the desert that my treasure lies hidden.
— Paulo Coelho
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Twin Saguaros 5 comments
Twin Saguaros — Image by kenne
Green towers
Almost nothing
interrupted the
twin towers
perfection.
My right shoulder
aches,
moving to compose
the desert symbol
of dreams.
— kenne
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Springtime In Catalina State Park Leave a comment
Catalina State Park — Image by kenne
Man is his own star, and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early, or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
— from The Honest Man’s Fortune by John Fletcher
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Desert Balloons 5 comments
Brittlebush Blossoms Along a Trail– Image by kenne
DESERT BALLOONS
I was walking this trail
holding strings to many
helium filled balloons.
a trail runner asks;
how come you are walking
with all those balloons?
I’m a wildflower, I said;
can’t you tell,
I’m connected to them.
he looked at me
not sure what I was —
I just looked back.
— kenne
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Sonoran Desert Wildflowers — Spring Fever 3 comments
Sonoran Desert Wildflowers (April 2015) — Images by kenne
Spring Fever
Flourishing in
activity
the desert
spring
comes
alive
making
being alive
special
now that
winter is
dead
birds
singing
wildflowers
abound —
spring fever.
— kenne
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Wildflower Addiction — Image by kenne
I can feel the flowers
reaching out
touching me halfway
down the trail.
Nature’s sex show
open to the sky
topless
in every way.
Lusting over the appeal
addicted to nature
seeking satisfaction
with more frequent visits.
— kenne
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Horned Lizard Near Desert Lupine 2 comments
Horned Lizard Near Desert Lupine — Image by kenne
Hiding in the shade
Protected from danger’s threat
Safe evocation.
— kenne
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Never In My Eyes 1 comment
Thistle and Bees — Images by kenne
Your beauty will fade
A time nature determines
Never in my eyes.
— kenne
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Tell me what you think art is . . . 3 comments
Desert Wildflowers — Image by kenne
Tell me what you think art is — if you can
— ask a lot of people — and see if anybody knows . . .
You ask me about music — I like it better than anything
in the world — Color gives me the same thrill once in
a long long time — I can almost remember and count the times
— it is usually just the outdoors or the flowers — or a person —
sometimes a story — or something that will call a picture
to my mind — will affect me like music —
— Georgia O’Keeffe
Becoming is Superior to Being 